Author Archives: jolanta

David Shterenberg Selma Stern It is difficult to find an artist of the twentieth century who has been more neglected by art history than the artist David Shterenberg. His works were banned in the 60s and 70s and neither Russian nor foreign art critics were allowed access to Shterenberg’s art works. When the Russian avant-garde […]

Sandrine Kern: New Landscapes     Often, when one downloads a video clip or a music file or a job application from the Internet, one can also download the program that would allow them to run the video, play the music, print the application. To provide the tool that would allow that information to be […]

"Die Critic, Die, Die" James Kalm We seem to be caught in an age of sequels, prequels, and remakes. This isn’t just about the Lord of the Rings II, or The Matrix III, but our whole culture, which seems to be, like the characters in Groundhog Day, stuck in an ever repeating recycle of time. […]

Josiane Sode Erica Snow Reviews are composed according to a particular writer’s interest levels, biases, mood swings, and of course hubris on any given day. My experience with the abstract paintings of Josiane Soder was framed by the circumstance of a week of visual overload. The visual fatigue coupled with a text to pour over […]

Andreas Jaeggi Erica Snow The works New York Zippers by artist Andreas Jaeggi are a linear series of somber unstretched canvases linked by dark plastic lines of zippers. The series continues the artist’s impressionistic documentation of European and American urban centers, familiar landmarks. These paintings are tied together and have the conceptual link of recording […]

April Picks Christopher Chambers Still in jail. It’s been more than six months since Alfredo Martinez was arrested and incarcerated in an FBI sting operation for wire fraud in relation to his alleged forgery and sales of paintings by Donald Baechler and Jean-Michelle Basquiat, two of the top proponents of the school of "bad painting." […]

Film and Video Festival Speech Ultra Violet Before I begin, let me say how grateful I am to have an opportunity to address all of you at this the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and I wish to thank the organizers in advance for inviting me. You may secretly be wondering what makes me […]

Killed by Lightning a new film by Yevgeny Yufit, the master of necro-realis Alexandra Paperno Yufit continues making uneasy films. Certainly in view of the difficult situation of the Russian film industry, this can be described as admirable. He regards himself as an advocate of necro-realism–and is also the only film maker representing this tendency. […]

Re-Kreation and Comewhatmay at POST, Los Angeles Habib Kheradyar   "Re-Kreation" is a group exhibit of photography and video works. The exhibit is installed with a keen sense of site specificity in mind. A constellation consisting of thirty-eight photographs are strewn salon-style on one of the small gallery walls on the second floor at POST. One […]

SCI-ART: Exploring the Brain and the Role of the Artist M-1000 The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness. – Marchall McLuhan   In the ‘60s, Nam June Paik documented […]